See Publishers Weekly article on new Elevator Group author John Presta and his book, "Mr. & Mrs. Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners & 300 Volunteers Did It"

Publishers Weekly.com ran an article today 6/16 at http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6665528.html&&&&&&&&, on the new Elevator Group author John Presta, former owner of Reading on Walden bookstore in Chicago, and his new book,coming out in Jan. 2010,  "Mr. and Mrs. Grassroots:  How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners, and 300 Volunteers Did It."  It's a unique and fabulous book.  Here's a description: 

Chicago community activists John Presta and his wife Michelle were running their small, popular independent bookstore, Reading on Walden, when Barack Obama’s campaign asked them to help in his 2000 race for Congress. Instantly impressed after meeting Obama, the Presta’s came on board and stayed on board after his loss. An engaging, detailed, first person account of the Presta’s personal interactions with Obama and how they, together with Obama and his early campaign workers, slowly and steadily built a grassroots organization around a highly committed group of some 300 volunteers. This book peels the layers off the early years of Obama’s political career, detailing how he and individual grassroots and "netroots" organizers built a successful campaign despite the Chicago political machine and won the 2004 Senate race, causing immediate speculation about Obama for President. With great insight into a younger Barack Obama’s character, vision, self-confidence and determination, Mr. and Mrs. Grassroots shows how change comes slowly, gradually, incrementally, and suddenly, and how one person—or two-- can make a difference that changes the world.

It will be released in a Limited Edition Hardcover, Trade Paperback, and Ebook.  Details to come.

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